Software Engineer (Mid-Level to Senior)

📍 Adelaide | 🕐 Full-time | 🌱 Venture-backed EnergyTech Startup

We’re building the tech to significantly improve the economics of grid-connected batteries and accelerate the clean energy transition.

At OptiGrid, we’ve developed a proprietary forecasting and battery optimisation platform that substantially outperforms the status quo. Backed by top-tier investors, our multidisciplinary team of software engineers, data scientists, and power system modellers is growing - and we’re looking for a (Mid-Level to Senior) Software Engineer to help us scale and innovate even faster.

🔧 What you'll do

Collaborate closely with engineers, data scientists, and energy specialists to deliver new product features and improvements.

Productionise our cutting-edge forecasting and optimisation models, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and fast.

Build and maintain the data pipelines powering our forecasting, optimisation, and bidding workflows.

Develop and manage our production codebase on AWS infrastructure using modern DevOps practices.

Set up logging and alerting tools to monitor system health and ensure operational reliability.

📌 What you’ll bring

5+ years of Python experience, including strong fluency with Python’s numerical ecosystem (e.g. Pandas, NumPy, Pydantic).

2+ years of working in technical teams, building data pipelines, delivering productionised code, and building or maintaining live applications.

Experience with AWS microservices, containerisation (Docker), CI/CD automation, and API development (RESTful).

Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform).

A collaborative, curious mindset and a willingness to work across disciplines.

⭐ Bonus points for…

Experience in the energy or trading sectors.

Exposure to mathematical optimisation libraries (e.g. Pyomo, CVXPY).

Experience building ML pipelines or working with time series data.

💼 What you’ll love about working at OptiGrid

Competitive salary and generous Employee Share Options Plan.

Flexible working arrangements, with a mix of time in our Lot 14 office (yes, there’s a ping pong table and beer on tap!) and remote work.

Fast-paced, mission-driven environment where your code has direct real-world impact.

Work alongside a curious, ambitious, and tight-knit team solving hard problems together.

Opportunities for career growth as the company scales.

👉 How to apply

Send us your CV and a 1-page cover letter explaining why you're a great fit for the role.